Chewing-gum composition.



and State of Illinois,

.and useful Chewing-Gum Composition, of

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to prevent the 45 ing matter 1n color,

' WILLIAM ERASTUS WILLIAMS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CHEWING-GUM COMPOSITION.

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Specification-of Lettens patent. P t nted Feb. 11, 1913. Application filed May 13, 1911. Serial No. 627,045. 4

To all whom it may concern:

-Be it known that I, WILLIAM ERAs'rUs WILLIAMS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook have invented a new which the following is a specification. Gum chewers easily notice even a slight difference between the several grades of as in the chewing, the tongue has all the time thatis needed to perceive slight differences.

The ordinary commercial chewing gum of to-day is composed of some gum or pitch for 15 a base to which there are 'addeda various forms of confection, such as sugar, glucose, etcL, together with the desired flavoring, and there is often added some material, such as parafiin, butter or greasy material, or starch, gum ,from sticking to the mouth. Most of the gum now used has chicle for the gum base, butother gums are used. In the high class chicle gums the conglucose, and? flavoring materials compose about threefection part, such as the sugar,

fourths of the whole, measured by 'the weight, so that after chewlng the gum to the point of the disappearance of the taste and. flavor there remains in the form of the chicle. about twenty-five per cent. of the'origmal.

weight. In the gums where starch andddigestible fats are used to shorten the gum, "or to prevent its sticking-the saliva of the mouth acts on these thugs and to a certain. extent makes them soluble and then they disappear causing the gum to lose some or all of its shortening.

I prefer to use in my gum a small amount of charcoal 'amounting to about one per cent.

. 40 in weight of the net weight of chicle or insoluble gum, about one-fourth of one per cent. of the total wei ht of the stick of gum as purchased. This 0 arcoal must not be too finely divided else it will act only as a colorand make the gum black or dark which is a serious objection; And further if {the charcoal is too finely divided or too much of it is used, it is apt tocolor the lips and tongue in chewing, which is also '50 amerious objection. If too much charcoal is used, it causes the gum to become too short and it also grates on the teeth; but just enough and the right quality of charcoal gives the gum a texture such that in chewing, it appears more like an article of food under the teeth, giving the integration, and a satisfactory sensation the mastication of a good food article.

In the preparation of my gum I prefer to use a charcoal made of grain, such as wheat, and in its preparation I use a good quality 6f thoroughly cleaned Wheat as free from grit as possible. I then lace this in a retort,

like a gas retort, and drive off all the volatile products, brmgmg the temperature of the retort and its contents up to a In this treatment the rains o wheat in the charcoal form retain a out their normal size and they are very orous, and when broken up, for mixing wit the gum, there appears to be insuflicient soluble matter or dust to cause a discoloration of the mouth even when this charcoal is chewed by itself. \Vith-the efii'ect of total dis-- like ood red heat.

charcoal made of wood there appears to beqa soluble coloring matterthat is objectionable as compared with my grain charcoal. The

L'graiu' charcoal being so very porous, a small amount of it becomes a good absorbent m t rial and in the gum becomes a polishing ma to This charcoal of the grain,.in the quantity mentioned, mixes interial for theteeth and a hygienic agent;- for the'person chewing it.

the gum in such partlcles that they maybe seen in the gum as separate particles and-yet with gum for various pur= among them being parched bran,-'but' of this sort when acted upon in 1 has the efl'ect of breaking;

up th gum particles 'in such a Way t'liat'th'ey' are carried off in the confection part oflthe gum and thus a personunintentionally swallows the larger part, i-f not all the gum, along with the confection,'part. This effect will also be brought about, to some extent, i fI fail to fullychar the wheat used in making soluble material remains to combine with the my charcoalls'ince then some considerable v confection materiaL. Iain also aware that 106 carbon gums, such as as'phaltum and mineral carbon, have been used with chewing gums. In witness whereof I have hereunto sub- Instead of grain from which to make my scribed my name on this fifth day of May, o charcoal, I may use starch or grain products, 1911, in the presence of two subscribing witor white crystal sugar. nessesh;

- 5 What I claim is;. nmsrus'immns".

Chewing gum havingeharcoal in granular Witnesses: v form made from grain or kindred products 0. A. Roman, incorporated therewith. F. C. MILLER. 

